Timing, plans, you know.”
“Ok, lead on, McDuff.”
“Well, and this is the delicate stuff. You’re a virgin.” Andy blushed. XXX How would you know?”
“Julie and I have been besties for years. Within a few minutes Andy returned; scrubbed clean he had quickly changed into clean shorts and t-shirt. “I told Mom we were going for coffee,” Sam said, “do you prefer that or a walk?”
“Coffee seems right. “I…I…don’t…”
“And that’s what it would really be, Drew, it would be the love that dare not speak its name. I’m telling you this so that you know that might not be the situation. “Do you remember Oscar Wilde?”
“What? “Ready?” she asked. But after her mind processed her pleasure, then her resistance to what had happened, her final and triumphant memory was of the power she




















